If the Codesmith folks don’t appreciate the fact that people pay that kind of money for a coding tool in the current climate, someone enterprising individual ought to consider exploiting that weakness. Download the Eclipse SDK and a Java template engine (such as Velocity), write a plugin with a useful Widget-based UI to tie it all together, and you’ve got an answer to Codesmith that you can peddle for $99 a piece.

If anyone wants to spend a few weeks creating something like that, don’t forget to mail me my 10% every month.